Server Changelog

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This was also added during today's maintenance, but I forgot to type it out the first time.

Other Monster Changes
• Biolab monsters now have 2 etc item, and Blood Thirst/Warrior's Will at 90%. One random filler loot that used to drop at 7.5% is removed.
• Draco's Dragon Vest drop rate increased to 0.45%
• Draco's Dragon Breath drop rate increased to 0.45%
• Draco's Spike[2] drop rate increased to 0.75%
• Dark Pinguicula's Exorcising Ring drop rate increased to 0.45%
• Ancient Tree's Bradium Ring drop rate increased to 0.45%
• Ancient Tree's Vital Tree Shoes drop rate increased to 0.45%
• Rhyncho's Tidal Shoes drop rate increased to 0.75%
• Rhyncho's Bradium Brooch drop rate increased to 0.45%
• Phylla's Wool Scarf drop rate increased to 0.75%
• Phylla's Bradium Earring drop rate increased to 0.45%
• Dark Shadow's Dagger of Hunter drop rate increased to 0.45%
  

For very high end dungeons that should require a small party (or an *extremely* geared solo character), the usual standard will be set to 0.45% as the drop rate. We've updated Root of Yggdrasil to match that of Biolab and Blackout Clocktower.

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Quick Bugfix:
- Aeon Staff is now propoerly giving 20% matk instead of 20 matk

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Valentine's Day 2021
• Visit the Researcher of the Heart, Mesna, in the Sage's building in Yuno (yuno_in03, 168, 190), and perhaps he will share with you one of his Secret Reports?
• This quest is doable once per character
• There are 2 very similar, but different ways to handle his request with different rewards. See which one is suitable for you!
• The quest provides ways to obtain every old valentine's day headgear that were previously unobtainable regularly: though some of them are by luck upon completion via the harder route. Complete the quest multiple times if you wish to get some of the old headgears!
• Loverings and Love Balloons have spawned in towns all over the world. This is one of your annual chances to get the rare Lovering card!
  
  Costumer Update
• Minda, the costumer who relies on your submitted schematics to make completely new costumes, have taken permanent residence in Caerulia in Faeheim
  
  New Costumes Added
  The following costumes are added in the usual Lutia, Faeheim and Nobility costumer.
  
  Faeheim:
• Bunny Top Hat: Faeheim Costumer Rank 2
• Flower Crown: Faeheim Costumer Rank 1
• Twin Bunnies: Faeheim Costumer Rank 3
  
  Lutia:
• Witch Hat: Lutia Costumer Rank 1
• Santa Poring Balloon: Lutia Costumer Rank 4
• Koneko Hat: Lutia Costumer Rank 3
• Cruiser Hat: Lutia Costumer Rank 2
• Sorc Night Cap: Lutia Costumer Rank 3
• Cat Ear Beret: Lutia Costumer Rank 3
• White Cat Hood: Lutia Costumer Rank 3
• Plain Black Mage Hat: Lutia Costumer Rank 3
  
  Nobility:
• Coif: Nobility Costumer Rank 1
• Morrigane's Helm: Nobility Costumer Rank 3
• Nipper Crab Hairpin: Nobility Costumer Rank 1
• Gentility Hat: Nobility Costumer Rank 2
• Bright Fury: Nobility Costumer Rank 1
• Pizza Hat: Nobility Costumer Rank 1
• Big Wedding Veil: Nobility Costumer Rank 3
• Plain Black Mage Hat: Nobility Costumer Rank 3
• Jasper Crest: Nobility Costumer Rank 2
  
  Malangdo Enchantment Update
  The additions/removal are:
• Staff of Destruction added as Rank 4
• Fairy Tales added as Rank 2
• Staff of Piercing added as Rank 4
• Mystic Bow added as Rank 2
• Sandstorm[4] removed from the enchantment list due to technical restrictions
  
  The rank changes are:
• Eraser raised from Rank 2 to Rank 4
• Holy Stick lowered from Rank 4 to Rank 3
• Infiltrator[1] lowered from Rank 3 to Rank 2
• Elven Bow lowered from Rank 3 to Rank 2
• Spirit Lash lowered from Rank 4 to Rank 1
• Electric Guitar lowered from Rank 4 to Rank 1
• Krishna lowered from Rank 3 to Rank 1
• Red Ether Bag lowered from Rank 2 to Rank 1
  
  Kaldheim Arena Buffs
  The arena's rewards have been improved.
• Gift boxes increased from max of 3 to max of 5
• First Aid Kit increased from max of 3 to max of 4
• Prize Medals scales over more waves such that you can get 2 medals by wave 6 instead of 3 by wave 8, up to 15 medals by wave 10 instead of 10 medals by wave 10
  
  Item Changes
• More costumes should be properly moved from weapon tab to armor tab. Current costumes that are already in your weapon tab in Kafra needs to be withdrawn, and then deposited again for changes to take place (though if there's still any in weapon tab, please report it so it can be fixed).
• Glorious Jamadhar has been revamped to actually do what it reads in its description to be based on critical attacks against demihuman
• In preparation for Mount mass release in March: Mounts now have a longer delay between mounting and dismounting, from 3 seconds to 5 seconds
• In preparation for Mount mass release in March: Mounts cannot be used during WoE time, regardless if you are on WoE map or not (we'll see if there's more elegant ways to implement this in the future)
  
  Monster Changes
• Incubus now drops Girl's Naivety at 1.05%
  

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Minor server update

• More costumes should not be a weapon but an armor now
• Costume Pigeon on Shoulder should be in its proper slot of lower headgear
  

Aliza has been boosted via Fairy Auction to have 50% increased spawn rate.

Abysmal Knight boost has ended.

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Not quite a direct changelog for the server, but a new version of the homunculus AI is available on github courtesy of Ange. Remember to back up any settings you want from your config files.

You can get it from Ange's github here:

https://github.com/Jyouya/AngeAI

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Server Changelist:
- Valentine's day quest and loverings/love balloons are removed
- New mvp cards from Faeheim and newer are now properly filtered out of WoE castles

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Server Changelist:
- We used the unexpected downtime to fix Bio4, so the map should not be buggy with monsters spawning/walking in walls anymore

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Server Changelog

All rates mentioned are at heRO's usual 5/5/3 rate, which is different from the current 6/6/4 apology rate.


Monster Rebalances
Overall: Scaraba needs no incentives so its runestones are shifted to other places to fit the philosophy of who gets runestones. Bifrost tower is overly conservative with its drop rates due to its mobiness initially, so that will be remedied by moving it to be in line with typical heRO drop rates for equipment from monsters.
• Antler Scaraba and Rake Scaraba no longer drops their runestones
• Necromancer now drops Mystic Rune at 0.45%
• Banshee now drops Ancient Rune at 0.45%
• Lichterns now drop equipment items at their expected drop rate of similar monster difficulty: main item now drops at 0.3% as a base line up from 0.15%
• Petal now drops Elemental Robe at 0.3% up from 0.15%
• Menblatt now drops Elemental Cape at 0.3% up from 0.15%
• Faithful Manager's Elemental Origin drop rate increased from 1.5% to 2.25%
  
  Item Rebalances
  Overall: tackling some flat matk silliness which traditionally is "equal" to ATK, but flat ATK means a lot more than flat MATK at the same number since MATK is a much higher number than ATK. We are also buffing some less used custom equipment so they are more of a viable side-grade options. Luxury Hat also gets a soft nerf for its absolute dominance as a defensive headgear without changing its defense. Some cards also have their effects split since they do a lot in a random, unjustified bundle for no adequately explained reasons. A few "miniboss" cards are also slightly nerfed so that they are suitable to be added to OCA in a future update (no ETA).
  
  Pre-emptively speaking for inevitable question: "should I hold on to OCA/DCA?" If you fear pool dilution and likes the content of them now, open them. If you want to wait for the potential expansion to venture into the unknown, save them if you can wait. There's no ETA for when this will change, so I don't know how long the wait will be either. That depends on network related issues to see if we can get test servers back up and running, which is still dead since early March.
  
  No Gunslinger item will be changed until Gunslinger overhaul is complete.
  
  
  Bregora
• Int penalty removed
• Dex penalty decreased from -4 to -2
• Slot increased from 1 to 2
  
  Elderstahl
• Improved to be a stronger match to Elemental Sword for hybrid characters
• Base atk increased from 150 to 170
• New effect: INT + 3, MATK + 5%
  
  Leek In Mouth
• Is now equippable by all classes instead of every job except Novice
  
  Snake Spirit Robe
• No longer has any equipment restriction for class or level
  
  Luxury Hat
• MATK% decreased from 3% to 0%
• Weight increased from 30 to 70
  
  Elemental Robe
• MDEF increased from 5 to 7
  
  Elemental Origin
• Int increased from +0 to +4
• Slot increased from 1 to 2
  
  Elemental Ring
• Flame Launcher bonus: MATK increased from 35 to 60
• Lightning Loader bonus: cast speed reduction increased from 6% to 10%
• Seismic Weapon bonus: damage reduction to boss and non-boss enemies by 4% changed to reduction to all sizes by 4%
  
  Elemental Cape
• Def increased from 3 to 5 to match Dragon Manteau
• MDef increased from 4 to 5 to match Dragon Manteau
  
  Gray Boots
• For each refine, the MATK boost is increased from 1 to 2 (this boost extends to the quintupling effect of the combo accordingly)
  
  Shoes of Judgement
• Now provided STR + 2
  
  Shawl of Judgement
• Flee bonus increased from 10 to 20
• Def increased from 3 to 5
  
  Sapha's Ring
• Critical Wound activation chance increased from 2% to 4%
• Curse activation chance increased from 3% to 5%
• These buffs extend to the doubling effect of the combo accordingly)
  
  Sapha's Hood
• Now has a Flee + 10 bonus
• The bleed effect on melee attacks, throw venom knives and meteor assault is swapped to a silence effect
  
  Sapha's Cloth
• Original effect of poison/bleed when user takes physical damage is removed
• New effect: Increase resistance to Poison and Bleeding by 100%
  
  Sapha Equip Combo (Assassin Custom Gear Combo)
• 5 agi and 5 flee changed to 10 agi and 10 ATK
• Assassin cross bonus: deadly poison rate increased from 5% to 15% (doubled for dual daggers to 30%)
  
  Armed Guard Soheon Card
• ASPD bonus decreased from 5% to 3%
• Compensation: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipment for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Elvira Card
• Old effect (Increase damage with Wind or Ghost property spells by 5%.
  Decrease Maximum HP by 5%.) is removed
• Reworked: Increase the damage of Lord of Vermillion by 40%
• Compensation: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Tikbalang Card
• No longer boosts the damage of Lord of Vermillion or Wind Blade by 25%
• Now boosts the damage of Thunderstorm by 50%
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
• Compensation 2: Users with this card can ask to trade it for an Elvira Card with a GM if they want
  
  Deviruchiring Card
• Activation rate now follows standard 0.5% on auto-attack (Vanberk rate) instead of 0.3%
  
  Faithful Manager Card
• Complete rework because original effect of MATK + 5 is as good as nothing
• New effect: [Book Type Weapon] When physically attacking, there is a 5% chance to cast Level 3 Wide Silence.
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Pouring Card
• No longer provides Int + 1, or affects frost nova/falling ice pillar
• No longer increases SP cost of Waterball
• Increase the damage of Waterball from 5% to 10%
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
• Compensation 2: Users with this card can ask to trade it for an Icicle Card with a GM if they want
  
  Yuki Onna Card
• Old effect removed (again)
• New effect: Add a 3% chance of causing the Frost status when inflicting Magic Damage.
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipment for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Rudo Card
• No longer decreases your SP by 25 whenever it activates
  
  Wild Rider Card
• Old Effect: When physically attacking, there is a 0.5% chance to increase ASPD by 4% and decrease HP by 200 every second for 5 seconds.
• New Effect: ASPD + 2%
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Vanilmirth Card
• Activation chance changed from 1% to 5% to match standard weapon autocast cards, and now casts Level 3 Caprice instead of Level 2 Caprice.
• Card effect no longer stacks with CD In Mouth as a result of the level increase
• No compensation as this is a buff in every way possible
  
  Scaraba Card
• MATK bonus increased from flat 20 to flat 40
  
  Cendrawasih Card
• Effect changed from 10 flat MATK per 3 refine to 25 flat MATK per 3 refine
  
  Svigalae Card
• Flat MATK increase changed from 30 to 60
  
  
  Item Fixes
• Lounge Suit should have its slot again
• Costume Pigeon on Shoulder is now in the correct mid headgear slot
• More costumes are moved from the weapon tab to the armor tab
  
  

Regarding Mavka

The giant inflation elephant in the room: it was within region of acceptability without donation boosts. Some zeny farming spot will always be at the top and that's fine. There will always be a clear winner. However, when donation boosts kick in, that's when it starts getting absurd. GM team discussed about how to handle it, and in the end, we decided to take a more moderate, slower approach. We recognize that players have warped builds to specifically make Mavka hunting work, and players dedicated entire character slots to do nothing but this one task.

Once the current Mavka boost ends (to be fair to our donating supporters), we will be nerfing the NPC sale price of Crystal Mirror, but will keep all other drops (including the witherless rose) with no changes. The mirror price drop will be calculated to maintain Mavka to be the top spot, just that it'll be closer to the other known zeny spots in context of only selling NPC loot without selling to other players for cards/gears. Conversely, the existing monsters (mainly Iara) who also drop Crystal Mirrors will have their crystal mirror proportionately buffed so that statistically these other monsters will not get nerfed as a casualty.

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• Fixed a bug where Vampyr card did not interact with Vampire's Gift properly
  

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Server Changelog


More Apology Goods
Pandelina has some different items for you this time that are slightly less transferable. We apologize once again for the downtime and we'll put that as our focus to troubleshoot our recent map server related woes lately.


Item Rebalances

War Blue Potion

• Weight reduced to 1
  

Salvage Cape

• Flat MATK boost increased from 2 per refine, to 3 per refine
  

Starving Fish Hat, Desert Prince, Lord of Death Helm, Honey Bee Hat, Sprout Hat, Fox Ears Drop Ribbon, Satanic Bone Helm, Riot Chip, Helm Of Dragon

• This hat series have their weight decreased from 100 to 50
• Base def increased from 2 to 4
• Desert Prince now gives demihuman resistance, just like other hats for other races
  

Big Ben Card

• heaven's Drive damage 30% => 40%
  

Rococo Mask (Guild Quest Hat)

• Drop rate of solidarity of tribe has been doubled, from 0.2% per 10 levels from the enemy to 0.4% per 10 levels from the enemy
  

Warzone Mob Changes

• New monster "Succubus." now spawns in Warzone!
• To maintain mob density, all mobs in warzone now spawns 7 copies instead of 8 copies
• No changes to Wild Emperium
  

Warzone Policy Change
Warzone has long been an issue due to number of monsters there making the map quite difficult to navigate, and it also eats up a disproportionate amount of server resources. We are going to implement a new system for the player mob creation system effective immediately.

Warzone mob will now have a "first in, first out" queue for player mobs where player mobs will retire in time. We will cut down the number of mobs in warzone down to only 20 variety of player mobs at all times. The current oldest 43 mobs will retire some time in June.

These 20 player mobs in the future will have their skills/drops adjusted as well.

All current players who have a mob in their name can ask for an immediate full refund in woe points to have their mobs retire prematurely instead of waiting to be bumped off the list. Please contact a GM via discord or support ticket to make for this arrangement. To get the refund, you must be able to log in to the character with the exact name as the mob in warzone.

List of affected players (in no particular order)

• Rowdy Day
• Fabre Queen
• Adrillf
• Adrillf (again)
• iPistis
• Slick's Shadow
• Kittie~
• ChaosPrince
• Beauty
• Leofer
• Nagato.Yuki
• RuAwakex
• Il clone di Paccone
• Succubus.
• Wai
• Eva
• Insomnium
• Seraph of Pain
• Xandra
• Mupfelsan25
• Romani
• Eissan
• Namreg
• Vaethlain
• Jora
• Medjai
• Hypnotize
• Nocyn
• Summerstream
• Rindy
• Cornelia Nox
• Nerisonna
• O-Joe Ishii
• Joesus
• Pow
• Pyronic
• Minntre
• Cinntre
• Rinntre
• Hosie
• Caramel Cookie
  

War of Emperium Changes

• Nobility Mounts are now banned from War of Emperium such that it cannot be used, though you can enter mounted. However, it means you cannot dismount either to contribute to the battle.
• WoE participation points have been increased from 1 pt per minute to 4 pt per minute, in order to match what Battleground can provide a bit better
  
  New WoE Shop is now available to further help WoE participants with meaningful resources to lighten the load of farming consumables a bit.
  
  The shop's new items and prices are:
• Condensed White Potion Box (contains 10): 2 points
• War Blue Potion Box (contains 10): 5 points
• Bless/Agi Scroll Bundle (contains 10 of each): 5 points (no change)
• AD Bottles Box (Contains 25 of each): 8 points
• Poison Bottle: 5 points
• Cobweb Box (Contains 50): 10 points (no change)
• Speed Potion Box (Contains 10): 50 points (no change)
• Storage Crystal: 5 points
• Guild Megaphone: 10 points
• Glistening Coats Box (Contains 15): 3 points
• Red Gemstone Box (Contains 30): 3 points
• Yellow Gemstone Box (Contains 30): 3 points
  

Battlegrounds Changes

• You no longer need Battleground Keys to enter Battleground
• Entry fee for battleground increased from 3000 to 5000
• Entry fee is now halved for Nobles
• Battleground will no longer start on its own at the 1 hour mark: players can freely open Battleground whenever they want
• Battleground bans the Halter Lead item: you cannot enter Battleground if you have the item on you. You must store the item.
• Glowing red text is now displayed if you lack zeny to join, for those click-spammers
• Battlegrounds has a banker now
  

Nobility Mount

For members of the nobility, King Ernst has commissioned a unique mount for you to travel across the land. Talk to the Mount Caretaker at Northern Prontera to receive a new Halter Lead item to summon a mount for you!

• Halter Lead is ACCOUNT bound not character bound: so long as your account has 1 noble member, every character on that account can benefit
• Halter Lead has an internal cooldown of 6 seconds: you cannot mount or dismount after using it without waiting for 6 seconds
• Halter Lead cannot be used in any GvG environment or any environment that bans movement speed item
• Not implemented yet, but in the future, please note that we will remove the usage of any items (including healing items) if you are mounted. Keep that in mind.
  

Quality of Life

• Save NPC and Warper NPC for Prisma Cave is now nearer to the entrance and not obstructed by trees
• Zic the Stylish Merchant no longer stands on top of the DB NPC
• Buying Shop stall seller is now in default camera distance at Alberta warp
• Buying Shop stall seller is also available in one area per major region: Prontera Tool dealer building, Caerulia (138,85), Rachel (113, 41), Yuno (167, 188) and Kaldheim (145, 151)
  

Bugfix

• Rogue Plagiarism NPC now properly gives Shadow Slash skill